The idea that you can nail your opinion to some point on a spectrum, and someone else can read out your personal set of policies from its location, is worse than professional astrology
Whether a blog leans left, right or sideways, as a collective force they are working to keep reporters honest. Journalists may not like their methods -- having your work sliced and diced in public is no fun -- but the end result may be better-quality news
I\'m declaring September 11 \"International Enough Day.\" Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already. September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who die
A quiet couple in Berkeley got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn changed the face of fundraising, brought P2P to political advertising, and reinvented grassroots activism.
CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language
"articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989-2001, the effects of those changes on bodies of governance and in turn the effects on subjectivity today"; links to political and social readings
very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on
The Democracy internet TV platform is a free and open way to watch, share, and broadcast video on the internet. You can read about it below or get right to it
Political group. One goal is to raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses. Just think - an e-mail must at least be protected as a postcard. It couldn't be that the administration now started to copy all information on postcards to be able to a
Indymedia ist ein Kollektiv von unabhängigen Medienorganisationen und hunderten von JournalistInnen, die nichthierarchische, nicht konzerngebundene Berichterstattung leisten. Indymedia ist eine demokratische Medienplattform für die Verbreitung einer rad
In English for Chris: Di Pietro announces that once a week he is going to release a youtube video describing what has been decided in the meeting between the ministers. Meeting that happens every friday.
Wir haben Computer geliebt, leidenschaftlich gerne mit ihnen gespielt und an ihnen herumgeschraubt. Wir hatten die c't abonniert, obwohl wir nicht die Hälfte ihres Inhaltes verstanden haben, haben versucht, mit Turbo Pascal oder Ähnlichem selbst kleine Programme zu schreiben. Begeistert nicht nur von Computerspielen, sondern vor allem auch von der Technik dahinter. Ende 2000 saßen wir deshalb staunend, mit offenen Mündern vor unseren Monitoren.
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